Example sentences of "one [modal v] have [vb pp] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might have thought that these trends would not present major difficulties since one apparent virtue of the British constitution was its flexibility . |
| 2 | One might have thought that these divisions would at least cease to operate in church , but there too Kerr advocates a rigid hierarchy : ‘ The best of all systems of arrangement is to place the family and their guests in front , strangers of position next behind them , and the upper and lower servants , together with strangers of their classes respectively , in successive order . ’ |
| 3 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 4 | But one would have thought that any gentleman who links corporal punishment with his lady 's age is unlikely to have his twilight years shared . |
| 5 | I , er I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb , and one would have expected that this paper came from education . |